Definition of Acoustics

Medical Definition of Acoustics

1. The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena, and laws. "Acoustics, then, or the science of sound, is a very considerable branch of physics." (Sir J. Herschel)
The science is, by some writers, divided, into diacoustics, which explains the properties of sounds coming directly from the ear; and catacoustica, which treats of reflected sounds or echoes.
Origin: Names of sciences in -ics, as, acoustics, mathematics, etc, are usually treated as singular. See -ics.
Source: Websters Dictionary
(01 Mar 1998)

Literary usage of Acoustics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau (1875)"acoustics. THIS science had to pass, like all the rest, through the theological
arid metaphysical stages ; but it assumed its positive character about the ..."

2.Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)"The problem may therefore be considered in a two-fold aspect: the acoustics of
rooms and the insulation of rooms. 30. acoustics of Rooms. 30a. ..."

3.Elementary Treatise on Physics Experimental and Applied: For the Use of by Adolphe Ganot (1881)"Province of acoustics.—The study of sounds, and that of the vibrations of clastic
bodies, form the province of acoustics. Music considers sounds with ..."

4.Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)"acoustics OF BUILDINGS BY FR WATSON Increased attention has been paid in late
years to the acoustical disturbances in buildings with the desire on the part ..."

5.System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1875)"At present I incline to reject cither view, and to class acoustics between Optics
and Elec- trology. It is principally upon biological grounds that I would ..."

6.A Text-book of Physiology: Normal and Pathological. For Students and by Winfield Scott Hall (1905)"acoustics is concerned particularly with questions of the production, transmission,
and comparison of sounds. (/?) "SOUND is always the result of rapid ..."